CAREER: The Role of Advanced Simulation Technologies in Innovation Processes

职业：先进仿真技术在创新过程中的作用

• 批准号: 1544119
• 负责人: Paul Leonardi
• 金额: $ 27.66万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1544119&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Role; Advanced; Simulation; Technologies

This set of studies will examine the role of advanced, computer-based simulations in managerial and policy-making decisions by comparing the work of scientists, engineers, managers and policymakers in three different disciplines: automotive engineering, atmospheric research, and urban planning. Research suggests that if the outputs of computer simulations appear to have high visual fidelity with the physical systems they represent, lay users are likely to believe that simulations make accurate predictions. This project will examine the use of simulation-based evidence by both technical and non-technical users during the search, generation and persuasion phases of decisions. The project will employ ethnographic methods to identify and assess representations and understandings of simulation products, patterns in acceptance and use, and associated changes in organizations' formal and informal influence structures. The results from these studies will give managers and policy makers insight into the consequences that new simulation technologies have for decision-making and, by association, decision-related organizational structures. By improving our understanding of how simulation models become persuasive communication devices, the results of this study will also provide policymakers with the appropriate questions to ask to determine the assumptions underlying simulation models and will give them a more general understanding of when and how simulations can be misleading or helpful.

这套研究将通过比较三个不同学科的科学家，工程师，管理人员和政策制定者的工作来研究先进的基于计算机的模拟在管理和决策决策中的作用：汽车工程，大气研究和城市规划。研究表明，如果计算机模拟的输出看起来与它们所代表的物理系统具有很高的视觉保真度，那么外行用户可能会相信模拟可以做出准确的预测。本项目将研究在搜索、生成和说服决策阶段，技术和非技术用户使用基于模拟的证据的情况。该项目将采用人种学方法来识别和评估模拟产品的表现和理解，接受和使用的模式，以及组织正式和非正式影响结构的相关变化。这些研究的结果将使管理者和决策者深入了解新的仿真技术对决策的影响，并通过关联，与决策相关的组织结构。通过提高我们对仿真模型如何成为有说服力的沟通工具的理解，本研究的结果还将为决策者提供适当的问题，以确定仿真模型的假设基础，并将使他们更全面地了解何时以及如何仿真可以误导或帮助。